The mauling is prompting questions about dog breeds and toughening punishments for their owners.

Just four days after Drame’s mauling, officers shot and killed a roaming pit bull running toward children on the 2500 block of Montana Avenue.

“The incidents that we have here show that there are higher amounts,” Hamilton County Director of Environmental Division Jeremy Hessel said. “It could be that there is a higher amount of pit bulls in the county, I’m not sure, but there are several factors that go into it.”

So far in 2014 there have been 36 bites involving pit bulls or pit bull mixes. By June of 2013, there were 28.

Since January 2013 there have been 760 total dog bites in Hamilton County. About 15 percent of those, or 116, came from pit bulls or pit bull mixes.

"It seems a little bit higher and the data says it's a little bit higher than other dog bites, but we still have to be safe around all dogs no matter if they’re pit bulls,” Hessel said.

Drame's attack is sparking a debate about what to do with breeds some people say are dangerous. Cincinnati repealed its pit bull ban in 2012 after nine years.

"The ordinances haven't worked,” SPCA’s Mike Retzlaff said. “They haven't really deterred the number of pit bulls on the street or the bites by pit bulls because it's an enforcement issue.”

Police said the dogs in Drame's attack had been guarding a drug trafficking operation.

Officers shot and killed two during the mauling and a third was removed from the owner's home.

The dog is now held at the SPCA where it will stay as the investigation continues. The SPCA said a judge will ultimately determine if the dog will go back to its owner, be deemed fit for adoption or be put down.

“A lot of times dogs like this will be used as guard dogs, and you can use any dog -- a lab, it could be a pit bull, it could be a German shepherd, you can make any dog mean,” Retzlaff said.

The dog’s owner, Zontae Irby, is a convicted drug dealer. He is being held on new drugs and weapons charges.

The city prosecutor is waiting to see how Drame's condition plays out before filing charges in the attack. Drame is currently at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in a medically induced coma.